An avant-première with the artist, ahead of the public vernissage.

Season II • Visit 6 • Gallery
French Artist

ROXANE GOUGUENHEIM

Ouvrir les Temps Sombres

Thursday, 29^th January
19h - 20h

by Lara Sedbon
63, rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth
75003 Paris

M°4, 8, 9 Strasbourg-St. Denis

Guided Visit by the Artist • Drinks • Conversation

Limited to 12 dues paying CAAF members only. You are a dues paying member if you have paid your dues since December 2025. Want to join the visit but not yet a dues-paying member?

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Due to the popularity of the visits, reservations will be honored on a first come first serve basis. You will receive a second email a week before the visit to confirm your place or state if you are on the waiting list.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Roxane Gouguenheim (b. 1981) has developed, since 2015, an artistic practice rooted in a reflection on historical night. Through painting, sculpture, digital image/video, and installation, she examines the persistence of ruins, the segmentation and absence of bodies, forms of afterlife and remanence, and the traces left by the major catastrophes of the twentieth century—war, extermination, and uprooting.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

In « Opening the Dark Times », Gouguenheim explores shapes of resistance that emerge at the heart of historical catastrophe. Painting, sculpture, and installation form a constellation of fragments in which bodies, languages, and materials bear the traces of wars, exiles, and collapses from the twentieth century to the present. In a dialectical dialogue with Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno, the exhibition questions the afterlife of forms as systems falter. Here, art does not repair; it opens breaches, exposes ruptures, and turns fragility itself into a site of thought. « Opening the Dark Times » invites us to dwell within the fracture, where, in the night of history, a few fragile lights still persist.

ABOUT THE SERIES

Each visit includes a guided tour led by an artist, curator, or gallerist, followed by an engaging discussion at a Paris art gallery or artist atelier. It provides a unique opportunity for alumni, artists and galleries to connect, fostering meaningful relationships around the world of contemporary art.

Visits are free and exclusive to dues-paying CAAF members. It offers an intimate opportunity to engage with contemporary art and ask your pressing questions.

Previous Visits have included:
Jeffrey Gibson @ Hauser & Wirth
Maxime Riché @ Atelier
Trevor Yeung @ Galerie Allen
Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann @ Atelier
Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann @ Emanuela Campoli
Difference and Repetition @ Gagosian
Brunschwig / Burstein @ Hélène Lamarque
Terence Gower @ Andréhn-Schiptjenko
Francis Picabia @ Hauser & Wirth
On Kawara @ David Zwirner
Jacqueline de Jong @ Galerie Allen
Alex Katz @ Thaddaeus Ropac

QUESTIONS

Any questions concerning this visit or the series contact:

Victor Schaub Wong ‘91 GSAPP
CAA France Board Member
email